Brent Eleigh or Brent Ely, Suffolk
Historical Description
Brent-Eleigh or Brent-Ely, a village and a parish in Suffolk, near the river Brett, 7 miles NE by N of Sudbury, and 2¼ SE from Lavenham station on the G.E.R. There is a post office under Lavenham (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 1684; population, 221. Brent-Eleigh Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value commuted, £482 with residence. The church is good, and was rebuilt in 1850. A market was formerly held in the parish.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Brent Illeigh St. Mary | |
Hundred | Babergh | |
Poor Law union | Cosford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Brent Eleigh or Brent Ely from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brent Illeigh, Eleigh, or Ely (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brent Eleigh or Brent Ely are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: